Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-16
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idence.
Boston, March ia revised lst of
the injured in tue railroad accident OF
yesterday shows that lii pe.sous were
wounded.
All night long a la.gefosce of work
men were engaged III clearing away the
debris of the wrecked cars at The scene OF
the bridge disaster. 1t was but slow
and but little Roadway was made. vet
the men worked hard, and when the
light OF morning was Gntfcient for a
continuation of the labor without means
OF ertifioial light, the work progressed
more rapidly. Ropes were being
stretched around the scene, and ell per-
SONS who were not actively engaged in
clearing the wreck we're forced to keen
outside the line.
A large force OF men are at work
taking the bridge apart. The baggage
car and one of rear cars of the trains
have been completely demolished, and
all that marks the spot where these two
cars were at the base of the embark
ment is a heap Of kindling wood.
The wreck is q more appalling sight
than the White River junction disaster
and this points strongly to the fact that
the train was running at a rate of speed
OF fully twenty-five miles per hour. The
forward cars, which lie in the embank-
ment and in the roadway, remain in the
same position In which they fell. There
were undoubtedly more cars in the train
as the tin tops of nine are to be found
but the remains of two cars are in such q
state OF demolition it is impossible to
discern whether they were two cars or
one. This was caused by the fall down
the embanknent, and consequently the
rumor has prevailed that there were
but eight cars in the train.
Prof. Swain, of the institute OF techno-
iogy, who made an examination of the
bridge, discovered what he considers to
have been the cause OF the accident. He
thinks there were serious defects in some
portions of the iron structure, not only
in the material used, but in the manner
of construction.
Martin Lynch, sub-foreman of the
West Roxbury paving department, was
at work yesterday morning with q gang
OF five men outing willows. The party
was stationed $50 feet from the bridge
on the southeast end of the structure,
and every man had an axe. Lynch said
this morning: ave had just begun our
work. l saw the train coming and
stopped to look at it. / saw it go
ing on She bridge and noticed that the
train was acting queer. The engine and
three cars wese across, but the whole
train was shaking and swaying most
violently. Then Just as the fourth car
was half on the bridge and half on the
embankment on the other side the
bridge went down. The fifth car
plunged down with il, and in Its fall
dragged back and down into the pit be-
low the fourth car, which, as / have said,
was Already half way on the bank. The
car behind the fifth car came plunging /,
crashing down upon it, and the last car
LOT all, The smoker, rolled over twice 8 it
went down the embankment. My
God, the bridge is down! Run, boys,
1 and ynnr1 ayes.@I yelled
started rs fast as I could go and they
with me. 1t was an awful sight. Such
struggling and signing and moaning l
never heard In all my life. Some of the
passengers who first succeeded in getting
clear Of the wreck seemed dazed, bewil-
dered and scarcely able to realize. what
had happened or where they were.
Others could and did help us, but on
the south side of the wreck there was
10 help for nearly ten minutes. The
smoker was the car that we came to first.
Our boys swung their axes with q will.
We knocked in the end of the car, out
away between the windows and then
went in ourselves and began the work OF
rescuing. We saw the uniform of Officer
Walter b. Lalor and took him out. He
was unconscious when we reached him
and probably dead, although his lips
quiyered for a minute or two after we
laid him out beside the wall. We took
ont Mr. Snow, who wat dying, and at
least q dozen injured persons.
The unhurt passengers, if there was
any. q don't remember seeing 8 man
in this car but was more or less
bruised and scarred), helped as, and we
emptied the car, taking ont the
cushions ard laying the injured upon
them. By this time teams had begun to
come and We placed the wounded in
them by two's and three's and they were
carried off to the engine-bcuse at Ros-
lindale. All was confusion. People
were focking to the place. Everybody
was screaming and shouting, some with
pain Others giving orders. cannot re-
member incidents with much distinct
ness after this. for /, too, was getting
excited. I only knew that we kept at
work until 10 o'clock, and staid until oil
we're taken away"
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